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\"jail\"<\/a>
\nYork County’s Prison, left empty since 1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An article in World magazine suggests a use for York County’s 1906 lockup<\/a> now on the sales block.<\/p>\n

World reports that Boston’s 18th-century Charles Street Jail is being renovated into a luxury hotel.
\nThe city worked up a $150 million bill to convert the prison, once home to anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, into a hotel… <\/p>\n

Architects worked catwalks and barred windows into the design.<\/p>\n

The hotel’s new name, according to the magazine?<\/p>\n

The Liberty Hotel.<\/p>\n

York might not support another luxury hotel, but one can imagine the conversion of the old Chestnut Street county prison, an 84-cell fortress abandoned since 1979, into apartments or condos for upscale 20- and 30-somethings.<\/p>\n

They might think it cool to say they live in, say, Independence Day condos.<\/p>\n

One could even watch the York Revs play from its upper blocks, er, floors.<\/p>\n

Other prison-related posts and photographs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Wanted: ‘Inmates’ to fill old York County prison<\/a>
\n– If Boston can turn prison in hotel, York can … <\/a>
\n– York’s Chestnut Street fortress bad symbol of York’s past<\/a>
\n– For sale: 100-year-old fortress-like prison<\/a>
\n– Old York County jail on endangered list<\/a>
\n– Prison listing brings back food loaf memories<\/a>
\n– ‘There were only so many cells in that old stone prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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